Allerson was a familiar face in German cinema and television from the 1960s onward, with films including one of the Jerry Cotton series, a principal role in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette (1976), and the infamous She-Devils of the SS. He often acted in international co-productions, including several English-language films. Some of the more notable include Battle of Britain (with Ian McShane and Michael Caine), The McKenzie Break (with Horst Janson), Who? (with Elliott Gould), The Odessa File (with Jon Voight), and Slaughterhouse-Five. In Italian cinema, he appeared in the 1970s Terence Hill/Bud Spencer vehicles All the Way Boys and My Name Is Nobody, while portraying a visiting count in the IsraeliLemon Popsicle movie Up Your Anchor (with Yosef Shiloah).

On television, Allerson made guest appearances on the Australian co-production The Outsiders, the CBS anthology Appointment with Destiny (narrated by James Mason, as one of several German actors in "The Plot to Kill Hitler"), and the BBC/ZDF co-production Paul Temple. German-language television included Das Kriminalmuseum, Der Kommissar, and Tatort.